Installing Outside Tap to Existing Pipework

[townfanjon]

Just open the drain off !!

 

[pyjamas27]

Well! Surprise, surprise, it' doesn't go anywhere. no sign of it coming through the wall internally. Maybe it was fitted in preparation, Odd really. Hey ho! Thanks for your help everyone.

 

[Harvest Fields]

Well! Surprise, surprise, it' doesn't go anywhere. no sign of it coming through the wall internally. Maybe it was fitted in preparation, Odd really. Hey ho! Thanks for your help everyone.

It will be connected somewhere. It may be behind the plaster board or kitchen units?

 

[Amateur]

the old boiler was in thebathroom, not allowed anymore.

Not true. You can install in a bathroom, as long as the switched fused spur and controls are elsewhere, cross bonding is present & independent RCD protected circuit.

Sorry to hijack but I had a little panic when i read this, my 3yr old combi is in the bathroom but was fed from a fused spur in the kitchen next to it (bungalow). I rewired the kitchen to be on its own circuit and wanted the boiler on its own circuit too.

I had wondered why the boiler installers hadnt utilised the old redundant immersion circuit and fitted a fused spur. Needless to say that is where i rewired the boiler to.

Following this i had a new consumer fitted complete with RCD protection.

Your post made me panic until i realised that my boiler is in the bathroom but it is fitted in the airing cupboard complete with a door so in effect a separate room. Im assuming your quote relates to mounting switches on the wall in the actual bathroom, not a cupboard within it?

 

[pyjamas27]

It will be connected somewhere. It may be behind the plaster board or kitchen units?

I have a clear view of all the pipe work, there is no plasterboard behind the kitchen units on the outside wall just breeze block. perhaps it's running between the breeze block and the outer wall?

 

[Amateur]

I have a clear view of all the pipe work, there is no plasterboard behind the kitchen units on the outside wall just breeze block. perhaps it's running between the breeze block and the outer wall?

Have you tried opening the valve to see what comes out of it?

If nothing comes out of it i would give the pipe a light pull, it might have been chopped off inside and plastered over and now its just a bit of dead pipe left in the wall that might pull out.

 

[pyjamas27]

Nope, Looked everywhere there is no pipe coming in from that outside wall in the kitchen. A thought is it could have been drainage for the Gas water heater that was in the bathroom upstairs above the kitchen?

 

[pyjamas27]

Have you tried opening the valve to see what comes out of it?

If nothing comes out of it i would give the pipe a light pull, it might have been chopped off inside and plastered over and now its just a bit of dead pipe left in the wall that might pull out.

I'll try that.

 

[Harvest Fields]

it is definitely time to open the valve

 

[heliotrope]

it is definitely time to open the valve

Ohhhhhhhh....Do it, just do it .